This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.
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Notes -
AI is still at the state where it will sometimes confidently tell you something completely wrong, and yet for simple blocker issues this is still immensely helpful, because you can just try out what it told you, and 90% of the time you get to declare victory, and the other 10% you're just back where you started.
In fact, there's a bit of grey area in between - twice recently I've seen an AI come up with a solution which was definitely wrong or incomplete in some way, but which was much easier to fix than solving the problem from scratch would have been.
For complex issues and design issues, AI can easily paint you into a corner by generating reams of redundant/spaghetti/inflexible code that solves your immediate problem but is unmaintainable in the long run, but in general it's getting better so fast that I'm not sure how long this warning will be necessary.
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